Picture is worth how much?

Factual Questions
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In the Paulina Street Journal
<http://chicago.straightdope.com/sdc2010hans.php&gt;, reference is made to the Bayeux Tapestry, a medieval textile creation that was over 200 feet long and provided an important record of historic events.

      "What about the Bayeux Tapestry?" I asked.

      "It was created well before 1900," Hans replied, "possibly as early 
      as the 11th century. It’s 224 feet long. You’d suck up some serious 
      bandwidth making a JPEG out of that."

 Readers might be interested in the annotated, and animated, rendition of this tapestry, which makes it much more easily understandable.  (This also requires much greater bandwidth than a standard view would do.  This is online at

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_559561&v=LtGoBZ4D4_E&feature=iv&gt;. That same page references other representations of the Tapestry.

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Very interesting. I’d never heard of this tapestry.

It immediately reminded me of the opening credits in Richard Fleischer’s 1958 film The Vikings. A quick search revealed that it did, indeed, inspire that particular sequence, as well as many other film uses.

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One thousand words? :smiley:

Incidentally, in Britain “every schoolboy” has heard of the Bayeux Tapestry. The “historic event[del]s[/del]” that it records is the battle of Hastings, the Norman invasion of England, led by William the Conqueror, in 1066 (itself the best known date in British history).